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one of my favorite reasons for carrying a smartphone is the availability to quickly gather information whether I'm looking up the movie time or I'm looking up a phone number for a restaurant or even getting turn-by-turn directions to that restaurant having quick access to that information is key I'm Jason Cipriani was seen at how-to and today we're going to show you the latest version of Google Maps running with a new labs feature called bubble buttons this allows you to quickly access information on the go let's take a look all right we're going to take a look at a new feature in Google Maps this was released in the latest update of Google Maps for Android called bubble buttons what this does is it actually allows for more information in to be to be displayed on your screen allowing for faster navigation or phone calls here's the normal display when you're looking at a venue in Google Maps to enable bubble buttons tap on menu more then tap on laps scroll down and you'll see a new option titled bubble buttons put in tap on that once you get to enabled alert hit the back arrow will bring it up again and as you can see we can now place a call directly by Places or by tapping the phone button or we can get directions and launch straight into the Google navigation tapping the navigation button a lot more can be done in a lot less taps as you just saw we're taking a few seconds to naval bubble buttons in the labs portion of Google Maps you're able to cut down on the time it takes from searching the venue to actually either giving directions or calling the venue for more tips make sure to join us over at how to CNN calm you